Oh teach me to see death, and not to fear,But rather to take truce;...How often have I seen you at a bier,And there look fresh and spruce.You fragrant flowers then teach me that my breathLike yours may sweeten and perfume my death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The prevailing trees (I speak only of what I saw) on the east and west branches of the Penobscot and on the upper part of the Alle...gash were the fir, spruce (both black and white), and arbor-vitæ, or "cedar."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The river ... banks were seven or eight feet high, and densely covered with white and black spruce,--which, I think, must be the c...ommonest trees thereabouts,--fir, arbor-vitæ, canoe, yellow and black birch, rock, mountain, and a few red maples, beech, black and mountain ash, the large-toothed aspen, many civil-looking elms, now imbrowned, along the stream, and at first a few hemlocks also.... The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallow, and the like. There were a few yellow lily pads still left, half-drowned, along the sides, and sometimes a white one. Many fresh tracks of moose were visible where the water was shallow, and the lily stems were freshly bitten off by them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and ...those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »